JP-10 Fuel? - Steel Soldiers::Military Vehicles Supersite

Bighurt · 03-18-2011, 17:54

Has anyone ever heard of running an M35 on JP-10. It's pretty close to kerosene.

I can get my hands on hundreds of gallons, which cues my curiosity.

Thanks

phil2968 · 03-18-2011, 20:04

i think it would run fine. I have run JP-8, what's the differance I wonder?

Bighurt · 03-18-2011, 20:26

Flash-point essentially

wreckerman893 · 03-18-2011, 22:36

If it is like JP-8 (souped up kerosene) it is dry.....mix it 50/50 with WMO and enjoy.

Bring me a couple hundred gallons when you head down here....I'll go a buck a gallon.

Bighurt · 03-18-2011, 22:38

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Originally Posted by wreckerman893

If it is like JP-8 (souped up kerosene) it is dry.....mix it 50/50 with WMO and enjoy.

Bring me a couple hundred gallons when you head down here....I'll go a buck a gallon.

Well when I said I can get my hands on I meant in a few months not weeks. Currently we give it to a fuel supplier and he sells it for a $1 a gallon. It's actually more like Kerosene than JP-8.

But yes my initial thought was 50/50 with WMO.

flighht2k5 · 03-18-2011, 22:50

Jp5 and diesel is the exact same thing. When I was in the navy all of our ground support equipment had stenciled on it "df#2 or jp5."

Bighurt · 03-18-2011, 23:00

They actually are different but most of the equipment that can run on DF #2 (F-54) can run on JP-8 (F-34) for a certain amount of time. The issue comes into play with common rail diesel engines and direct injection because JP-8 doesn't have the lubricity of diesel fuel. Many of the vehicle TO's actually define what is to be replaced if run on JP-8 for more than 500 hrs.

Actually Navy Planes can't be stored below deck on the Aircraft Carrier if they were fueled with JP-8.

Floridianson · 03-18-2011, 23:23

Bighurt thought I read something like that about no lubricty. So I will go with adding something good to take care of that and then run.

flighht2k5 · 03-18-2011, 23:57

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Originally Posted by Bighurt

They actually are different but most of the equipment that can run on DF #2 (F-54) can run on JP-8 (F-34) for a certain amount of time. The issue comes into play with common rail diesel engines and direct injection because JP-8 doesn't have the lubricity or diesel fuel. Many of are vehicle TO's actually define what is to be replaced if run on JP-8 for more than 500 hrs.

Actually Navy Planes can't be stored below deck on the Aircraft Carrier if they were fueled with JP-8.

I know jp5 is oily.